Re: a proposed change to GR_CharWidths

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 23:13:34 EDT

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     --- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
    wrote: >
    > I would like to make a change to the
    > GR_CharWidths::getWidth() so
    > that if the character for which width is requested
    > is not present, the
    > return value will not be 0, but a 0x80000000 (large
    > negative number,
    > will be defined as GR_CHAR_WIDTH_UNKNOWN). This is
    > to make
    > it possible to distinguist between unknown character
    > and a genuine
    > 0-width characters.
    >
    > As far as my grep told me, the class is only used in
    >
    > gr_Win32Graphics (which is what I need to fix) and
    > the XFT version
    > of gr_UnixGraphics. The change will only require
    > that the
    > GR_CHAR_WIDTH_UNKNOWN return value is at some stage
    > remapped to 0. Is it OK if I do this? (I suppose
    > mainly directed at
    > Joaquin).

    Please do something like this. It's a major step
    toward fixing the RemapGlyph() horribleness.

    Andrew Dunbar.

    > Tomas

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